What Is Fissured Tongue?
4. What Are the Causes of Fissured Tongue?
Though harmless, you might be curious about the nature of this condition. For the most part, there has been no conclusive evidence suggesting why a person is born with this condition. The best guess at the moment is that a fissured tongue is the result of genetics. Scientists and researchers do agree that this condition is simply a variation on what is considered normal for the tongue and is not a cause for concern unless coupled with more severe symptoms. Interestingly, men are a bit more likely to have this condition than women.
While a person is born with a fissured tongue or develops it within the earliest stages of his or her life, it is not a condition that persists in all. In fact, a majority of people who have slight cases of a fissured tongue will notice the depression vanished as they get older.
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